This upload features unique and never broadcast in the UK, footage of a short interview with HMS Repulse survivors whom had escaped from Singapore in early 1942. My late father, Ted Matthews, is one of [more]
Wrexham remembers four children killed in World War 1 bomb blast. A father returning from the front-line during World War One lived to regret his fateful decision to bring a battlefield souvenir home. It was [more]
(5 March 1892 – 24 March 1952) participant of the First World War, from 1919 a second lieutenant of the Polish Army, graduate of the Higher Military School in 1926. Officer of the permanent deputation [more]
My mother was a Red Cross volunteer stationed at the 129th General Hospital in Overton-on-Dee in 1945. She wrote long, descriptive letters home, which I have donated to the WW2 US Medical Research Centre in [more]
Arthur Henry Leslie Soames was born on the 20th May 1887 in Wrexham1. He was the son of Frederick William Soames and Julia Mary Soames. At the time of the 1891 census the family was [more]
Reginald Eyton Griffiths was born on the 15th September 1900 in Liverpool, England1. On the 7th October he was baptised at St Chrysostom, Liverpool2. At the time of the 1901 census he was living in [more]
Charles Eustace Fishbourne was born on the 15th January 1885 in Llandyssill, Montgomery, Wales. He was the son of Reverend Edward Alexander Fishbourne and Harriet Fishbourne. He was educated at St. George’s, Windsor, and Malvern [more]
The birth of Walter James Field was registered in Aston, Warwickshire, which now falls under the city of Birmingham, in 18821/2/3. He enlisted into the army on 11th September 19144, and served with the 2nd [more]
William Barratt was born on the 21st February 1890 in Wrexham, Wales 1. The 1891 Wales Census return further narrows down his place of birth as being Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire. At the time of the [more]
During the Great War it was the policy of the British Government not to repatriate servicemen who died on active service overseas, instead they were buried near to where they died. The only exceptions to [more]
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